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Read MoreGenuine Curiosity
Author Dwayne Melancon is always on the lookout for new things to learn. An ecclectic collection of postings on personal productivity, travel, good books, gadgets, leadership & management, and many other things.
Close to profitability
Check out a free excerpt from Ram Charan's book "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning" - Lisa's serving it up on Management Craft.
I've not been that "into" Ram's books in the past, but this excerpt has piqued my interest. It's on its way to me from Amazon (by the way - is it just me, or does that arrow logo on their shipping boxes look just a bit suggestive?).
Read MorePleasant surprises on re-entry
I’ve been traveling a lot lately with less time online than usual, so I’ve been suffering a bit of blog withdrawal. That includes posting, of course, but it also means I haven’t been able to keep up with my usual blog haunts. Well, I’ve spent some snippets of time remedying that over the last couple of days, and have found some pleasant surprises.
I found one of those “right there when you need it” posts on John Richardson’s blog. In his post “Follow The Leader,” he reminded me to take a look at the roadmap for my life and make sure it’s taking me where I want to end up. Powerful stuff. - Skip reminded me of the differences between leaders and followers in a very crisp way.
- Matt has a great post on networking and meeting 3 new people each
day(oops - that's 3 new people each week - good catch, Matt!). - I was flattered to find that Genuine Curiosity was chosen by Phil Gerbyshak as one of his 5 must-read blogs if he were stranded on a desert island with Wi-Fi.
- Thanks, Phil! I don’t know how I could ever get the list down to 5 - maybe they’d let me use yours and take advantage of all the links you share.
- (By the way, if you don’t read Phil’s “Make It Great!” go try it out - he has some very inspiring things to share)
- Things are hopping at the 100 Bloggers project, with lots of new posts and additional authors. If you’re a blogger, and want to be part of the action and join 100 Bloggers now. Then add 100 Bloggers to your list of Technorati favorites.
- I’ve been asked to be a guest blogger on Troy Worman’s excellent “Orbit NOW!” blog next week - and I’m really looking forward to it.
There’s lots more to see on the way back in - take a look through your blogroll, or borrow mine. And, as Rosa always reminds me - sometimes it’s a good idea to get out of your RSS feed reader and visit the blogs live - you can find fun stuff in the sidebars.
Read More[Update] The prints of blogs
I got a note from Dave the other day, telling me he sometimes wants to print out some of my blog articles, but can't get them to print in a sensible form from either Firefox or Internet Explorer. I'd never tried this before, but I quickly saw what he meant when I saw the screwy formatting that results. Apparently, this is an inherent issue with TypePad blogs (and possibly others).
I suggested a workaround that I'm sharing here, since it may help if you want to print out articles from the blogs you read.
- Install and run the free RSS aggregator SharpReader (this is my favorite RSS reader for Windows)
- Paste the URL for the blog you want to print from into the SharpReader address bar. SharpReader will autodiscover the RSS feed and you'll see a list of the articles in a list. If you want to subscribe to the feed, you might as well click the Subscribe button right now.
- Click on the article you want to print, and you'll see it appear in SharpReader's viewer pane.
- Right click on the article text in the viewer pane, and select "Print" from the context menu. From here, it's just a normal print dialog.
This works very well and doesn't require any changes to any of the blogs you're reading - and since SharpReader is free, the price is right.
Below, I've provided a link to a PDF (created using Nitro PDF Pro, of course) showing a sample of what the output looks like:
Update March 10:
If you don't want to install another RSS reader, another option (for my site, at least) is to subscribe to the email alerts on my site (in the left navigation bar). I use a wonderful, free service called RSSFwd that will email a print-worthy copy of each new post to you. You can then print out any articles you'd like to print. It's privacy-friendly, as well - I don't have access to your email address through this method, and you don't receive any emails other than the posts through this method.
And fellow bloggers, the service is a snap to set up and use, so give it a try if you want to provide alternatives to share your ideas.
Read MoreRead Rosa's Round Up
Rosa's done a wonderful job (and doesn't she always?) of touring the blogs of her community and provided a great snapshot of what's going on. Check it out (and thanks for the nod regarding my post titles, Rosa).
While you're over there, join in on the Managing With Aloha Jumpstart program she's been doing this year. It is a great way to get the zen of her wonderful book - and to get a better feeling of connectedness with her community. She started this in January, but it's never too late to jump in!
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